= sense A.

Botany. Of a part of a plant (esp. a style or stamen): that does not protrude beyond the surrounding organ.

Botany. Of a flower: = pin-eyed, adj. Obsolete.

Botany. Originally: †belonging to or designating the Linnaean order Monogynia (obsolete). In later use: having only one pistil, style, or stigma. Now…

Belonging to the order Pentagynia; having five pistils or styles.

having three pistils.

= monogynous, adj. 1.

Botany. Having many pistils (or styles or stigmas). Obsolete.

Of a heterostylous plant (esp. one of the genus Primula) or its flowers: having a long style so that the stigma is visible at the mouth of the…

= pentagynous, adj.

= polygynous, adj.

Having eight pistils or styles.

Botany. Said of a style bearing the stigma on some specified part, as along the side instead of (as usual) at the summit.

= polygynious, adj.

of or pertaining to this order.

= monogynous, adj. 1.

= octagynous, adj.

= pentagynous, adj.

having four styles or pistils.

of or belonging to the order Trigynia.

Botany. = monogynous, adj. 1. Obsolete. rare.

having three stigmas.

having three styles.

belonging to this order of any class; having four pistils.

= tristigmatose adj.